Motherhood

About today...today was a stinker. I did my best to make the most of it, I promise, and it still sucked. And that's fine. It happens. Some days I can laugh off the ridiculous nature of it all (smeared poop everywhere, tantrums because a hair clip is *gasp* put in someone's hair, the fact that the twins eat farm-fresh gourmet meals while I choke down a cold no-name version of Kraft Dinner -- yes it exists, and yes it's terrible.) And other days I'm just like WTF did I do to manifest this shit upon myself, all while I lay in the fetal position, a plethora[...]

It’s summertime, people! The sun is shining, people have shifted from complaining that it’s too wet to complaining that it’s too hot, patios are in full swing, and the twins now spend 80% of their day covered in something (usually sticky) or just running around, shirts off. Yes, summer is here. Finally. It’s only been “real” summer for about two weeks in Toronto, but in that two weeks I have learned that summer with maniac active twin toddlers is a VERY different beast than summer with stationary twin infants. That sentence might have invoked[...]

Introducing New Flavours to Baby Made Easy with Love Child Organics Ah, introducing solids. A huge step for babies, and parents everywhere. Your child is ready to taste and swallow something other than breast milk or formula, congrats! It’s an exciting, albeit slightly terrifying, time. For parents, this milestone usually comes after the 6-month Well-Baby checkup with encouragement from your trusted pediatrician. “Go ahead, start solids,” they say. “It’ll be easy,” they say. Ok, maybe they don’t say exactly that part, but in my experience, t[...]

﻿﻿ I’ve always been an anxious person, but I didn’t always know that it was anxiety I was dealing with. I got stressed about the usual things: work, boys, friends, sports, school, being perfect… the list goes on.read more[...]